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While only a comparatively small number of fans were able to attend last week’s Doctor Who at 50 event at the BFI in London, Sky News was in attendance to bring a report of the show’s anniversary. Featuring clips from the classic series and interviews with classic era stars such as Sylvester McCoy, the following…

We’ve heard a lot from Billie Piper (aka Rose Tyler) and certainly from John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness) about how they feel about the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who this year. However, very little has been heard from fellow ‘NuWho’ companions, Catherine Tate (Donna Noble) and Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones), apart from a brief Q&A…

You may or may not have heard them, but there are rumours going around concerning Doctor Who and 2014. There is, they say, a chance that the show won’t be returning for several months after the 2013 anniversary special (or the Christmas episode) and that even episodes in 2014 are optimistic. But before we get…

Back in 2012 we learned that among the celebrations for Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary year there would be a dramatised telling of the show’s genesis and early years. An Adventure in Space and Time is written by Mark Gatiss and will soon start shooting at Deer Park Road studios in Wimbledon, reports Your Local Guardian….

Big Finish has announced another Doctor Who 50th anniversary tie-in! The series main range release in November 2013 will be a Seventh Doctor and Ace story – so what better than to reunite them with Group Captain “Chunky” Gilmore and the Counter-Measures team? First appearing in Remembrance of the Daleks back in 1988, Gilmore (Simon…

New Doctor Who eBook writer Eoin Colfer – he of Artemis Fowl and the sixth Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novel – has appeared on YouTube to talk about A Big Hand For The Doctor and his love of the series. Recalling the wonder of research for writing the story (“lying on the sofa watching…

Anniversaries are scary most of the time – either the knee-knocking comes from not wanting to forget (which leads to all sorts of existential quandaries when you do) or that the celebrations just won’t encapsulate the general loved up feeling you have for that person, animal or Chinese motorbike. Now factor that by a million…